Captain Melted, Sergeant Dee Sunshine & Private Dee Rimbaud
Influences
Cabaret Voltaire, Syd Barrett, Laurie Anderson, Fini Tribe, Daft Punk, Underworld, Orbital, Leftfield, Transglobal Underground, Early Pink Floyd, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Kraftwerk, The Orb, Tangerine Dream, Fatboy Slim, Faithless, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Prodigy, Sex Pistols, Nick Cave, Lemon Kittens, Sammlas Mammas Manna, Aqsak Maboul, This Heat, Can, Captain Beefheart,
Sounds Like
Somewhere between early, industrial Human League and Cabaret Voltaire, mixed with The Orb and Daft Punk, plus an eclectic mix of everything from psychedelia to punk.
The Melted Rubber Humans are not a band, but a laptop computer and the twiddly fingers of Captain Melted: together they make a twisted experimental electro that will set your grey matter into thinking mode, your heart into feeling mode... and may even get you out of your armchair occasionally to shake your limbs in a spastic impersonation of dancing. Some folk might call the Melted Rubber Humans purveyors of "intelligent dance music". Some folk might say they are beyond an exact definition. Some folk may say they are the musical equivalent of a long, protracted orgasm. Who knows what folk think? Folk think all sorts of different things, eh? Captain Melted, also known as Dee Sunshine, also known as Dee Rimbaud, is a writer, artist, spiritual healer and dad, as well as music twiddler. Should you be delighted by the Melted Rubber Humans sound, you might want to check out his writing and art at www.thunderburst.co.uk or his blog at deerimbaud.blogspot.com or his sexy, arty t-shirts and stuff at rimbaud-products.blogspot.comThe Melted Rubber Humans are dedicated - for the time being - to providing all their music to you for FREE. You can now download over 3 hours of their music at http://www.virb.com/melted_rubber_humans and you can download their latest tunes at http://www.virb.com/melted_rubber_humans_2
Thanks for sending the CDs. I gave them both a listen to, but to be honest neither of them really do it for me, so I don't know if my feedback would be in any way useful. Technically there's nothing wrong with Charles' stuff, but it just doesn't rise above the millions of 'boys in their bedrooms' stuff I've heard over the last 30 odd years... it needs something more, that special spark of genius, that extra fire... d'you know what I mean? As for your CD, well the mix is all to fuck, which makes it really difficult to listen to, and the music just doesn't work with the poetry, for the most part. Somke of it is interesting to listen to, but it doesn't feel like it was composed for the poetry, rather that the two have been cobbled together. I seriously suggest you listen to Jim Morrison's epic poem thing (can't remember the title now) as an example of how you might take it... or at the other extreme, listen to Patti Smith. Both of these poetry/ music fusions work really well, but for different reasons. Yours kind of falls in a grey area between the two. Perhaps if you invested in serious studio time, with the assistance of a producer you could make something a lot better, because more than anything it's the sound quality the spoils your CD... and my advice, more than anything, would be for you to NOT send out any more CDs of such poor audio quality.
Probably you're going to think I'm a total cunt for saying all this, but it'll probably serve you better in the long run than some kiss-ass horse-shit. If I tell you it's great and it isn't, am I serving you well? All I can say to you is that you've got potential, but you should go back to the drawing board and really work like fuck on it.... and get rid of the cheezy synth stuff, it already sounds dated... and ease off the echo fx machine. As for Charles, he's a very competent musician, but I'
I love Melted Ruber Humans. They are chewy. This music is wonderful and i hear a great deal of talent in between the notes, but MRH.... What in the heck is your zombie plan?
Hey Mr. Sunshine just read your email sounds like a serious couple of weeks. Just listening to your tune now, you are so right about looking up and I'm starting to think that my blue square is related to all this. I love the little blue square, I can certainly live with death now. Miss you all xxxx
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